How to Make a BIKE CRATE With a Custom Quick Release!

Here's a single day build of a utility bike crate made from scratch. My wife wanted to spice up her vintage Bianchi Advantage hybrid bike with a convenient storage crate.

The whole project is made out of 12mm (1/2 inch) 9-ply baltic birch plywood. This is great stuff! Baltic birch is a very easy product to work with - it's easy to cut on a table saw and sands easily, but is strong and hard enough to hold up to many uses. It also looks beautiful when stacked in multiple layers.

For this project, I developed a quick release mounting plate which at one end, and a cleat on the other. The cleat goes through the bottom of the crate and holds securely. This whole mounting plate also fits inside a channel on the bottom of the crate, further increasing the left to right rigidity between the two pieces. This mechanism works super well, and I'd use it again if I had the opportunity.

Follow along as I break down this project from start to finish!

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PRODUCTS I USED:
Titebond II wood glue (honestly is there any competition?): amzn.to/30AdxoW
Heavy Duty Window Sash Lock (used to hold the crate to the mounting plate): amzn.to/2BULNRQ
Dewalt Folding Workbench: amzn.to/37oZZOE
Triple thick polyurathane: amzn.to/2W3p1yi

MUSIC:
Summer Route by Lwfi: musicbed.com/songs/summer-route/40621
We Can Run Away by Lone Waves: musicbed.com/albums/we-can-run-away/4953
Hotter than Summer by Model Citizen: musicbed.com/songs/hotter-than-the-summer/41758

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